Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

A phyB-PIF1-SPA1 kinase regulatory complex promotes photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis

  • Inyup Paik,
  • Fulu Chen,
  • Vinh Ngoc Pham,
  • Ling Zhu,
  • Jeong-Il Kim,
  • Enamul Huq

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12110-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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SPA proteins repress plant photomorphogenesis by promoting the E3 ligase activity of COP1. Here the authors show that SPAs also act as serine/threonine kinase and are required for phyB-mediated light-dependent phosphorylation and degradation of the PIF1 transcription factor.